Economy Quotes
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Economy is going without something you do want in case you should, some day, want something you probably won't want.
Anthony Hope
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What our economy needs is direct job creation by the government and mortgage-debt relief for stressed consumers. What it very much does not need is a transfer of billions of dollars to corporations that have no intention of hiring anyone except more lobbyists.
Paul Krugman
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As we move deeper into the 21st Century, the need for a quality public school system will become more of an economic issue and more of a civil rights issue. Because, as our economy relies more on brains and less on brawn, the only way everyone can secure all the blessings of liberty is to receive a quality education.
Janet Napolitano
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Only a strong economy can create higher asset values and sustainably good returns for savers.
Ben Bernanke
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The central moral issue of science is that we do not have a science of peace and hardly know where to begin in building one.
Joshua Lederberg
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I see the underlying economy as being very healthy.
Henry Paulson
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What does cookery mean? It means the knowledge of Medea and of Circe, and of Calypso, and Sheba. It means knowledge of all herbs, and fruits, and balms and spices... It means the economy of your great-grandmother and the science of modern chemistry, and French art, and Arabian hospitality. It means, in fine, that you are to see imperatively that everyone has something nice to eat.
John Ruskin
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You have to make the shift from being a consumer in the economy to becoming an owner-and you do it by becoming an investor.
Anthony Robbins
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If you increase the number of rockets you build and you buy, then it's the scale of the economy, the price is going to come down. It may not come down in order of magnitude, but if several commercial ventures start being successful and there becomes a bigger market for these rockets, the price will naturally come down a bit. That's why I think Excalibur Almaz, we're a little bit unique in that we don't look at our so-called competition with disdain, we want them to succeed and it needs to have more than one player. Even if we are successful, we couldn't handle the entire market ourselves.
Leroy Chiao
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Clearly it's going to affect the Gulf Coast economy quite a bit. You've had a lot of property damage. Basic services are down.
Ben Bernanke
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I think it's important to take a look behind the numbers, ... As the economy gains steam and people gain confidence about their job prospects they will declare themselves back in the job market and the unemployment rate may increase. That's I think what we're seeing today.
Elaine Chao
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A single economy makes the constant adjustments necessary to facilitate trade impossible.
Vladimir Bukovsky
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As long as we find that the energy impact is only temporary ... my guess is that the effects on the overall economy will be fairly modest.
Ben Bernanke
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You don't drive an economy by consuming - the consumer is not the engine, the consumer is the caboose.
Peter Schiff
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I'd throw dollars out of helicopters if I had to, to stimulate the economy.
Ben Bernanke
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They really need to know much more about where the food comes from - how to grow it and cook it, how to make consumer choices that are good for the environment and the local economy.
Jane Powell
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I certainly wouldn't say that we loved the arms race. Trillions of dollars were used to stoke it. For our economy, which was smaller in size than the American economy, it was a burden. But one cannot agree with the statement that the arms race played the key role in the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Mikhail Gorbachev
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According to a recent survey, kids are receiving an average of 40 cents less from the tooth fairy. That's right, the economy is so bad that even make-believe people are feeling the pinch.
Conan O'Brien
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The impact on the broader economy and financial markets of the problems in the subprime markets seems likely to be contained.
Ben Bernanke
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I think we are a product of all our experiences.
Sanford I. Weill
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The crisis in Europe has affected the U.S. economy by acting as a drag on our exports, weighing on business and consumer confidence, and pressuring U.S. financial markets and institutions.
Ben Bernanke
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Yes, we should consider ways to address the deficit and bring real, direct relief to the gulf region, ... but we must not lose sight of maintaining the infrastructure that supports our economy and way of life.
Olympia Snowe
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In the past six months, our federal government has devised a dozen strategies to save America's financial markets. Each plan has been more costly, more risky, and less aligned with the principles of our country's free market economy than the last. I am disappointed to say that this latest plan puts all the rest of them to shame.
Michael Enzi
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The United States must produce more students interested in math and science in order for our Nation to excel in an increasingly global economy.
Ric Keller